At 3:58 PM -0500 4/9/04, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>Yep. If a system lets a repair technician skip
>a warning or a writer inserts a caution instead
>of a warning, the repair technician can die.
Which has nothing to do with what we're discussing here. No software
system I've seen is smart enough to tell whether a particular problem
should be a caution or a warning in the face of a person mislabelling
the content. A DTD cannot tell if a writer has used a caution where a
warning is appropriate or vice versa. Similarly, a validator cannot
determine if a warning has been omitted where one is called for. It
can tell that a warning element is not present, but it has no way to
know that there should have been a warning in the first place.
--
Elliotte Rusty Harold
Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
